Read Complaint Filing and Parent Letters in UK's GMC Wakefield, Walker-Smith, Murch Investigation

At a Press Conference (Advisory HERE) called to announce the imminent filing of Jim Moody’s complaint to the GMC, a letter (HERE) jointly written and signed by parents of eight of the 12 Lancet children (see below), was read out by Mrs Rosemary Kessick (HERE), representing the parents who had signed. The letter emphasised the regard in which the parents’ hold Dr Wakefield, Professor Walker-Smith and Professor Murch. The letter states that the parents were appalled that the GMC hearing had been allowed to go ahead ‘…in the absence of any complaint from any parent about any of the children who were reported in the Lancet paper.

In addition, three parents, who represented four of the 12 ‘Lancet’ children, two of them brothers, made public statements (Isabella Thomas HERE) and (Rochelle Poulter HERE)to clarify the details of their childrens’ involvement and to express their support of the three doctors, whom they consider to be wrongly under investigation by the GMC. 

An additional statement ("My Views HERE), read out by his mother, was provided by Michael Thomas, one of the children involved in the original case-series. Michael, now 17 years old wanted to speak out on behalf of the many children who are not able to tell their own story.

An Open Letter

To Whom It May Concern

We are writing to you as parents of the children who, because of their symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease and associated autism, were seen at the Royal Free Hospital Paediatric Gastroenterology Unit by Professor Walker-Smith and Dr. Simon Murch with the involvement of Dr Andrew Wakefield on the research side of their investigations. Our children became the subjects of a paper published in The Lancet in 1998.